CAA Talent Agency Gets a Big New Investor: DealBook Briefing

The Singaporean sovereign wealth fund Temasek will take a minority stake in the talent agency CAA, in a deal expected to be announced today, DealBook is the first to report. TPG Capital will remain the agency’s biggest shareholder.

CAA’s president, Richard Lovett:

“As one of the most successful and sophisticated investors in the world, Temasek provides an extraordinary level of insight and resources as we continue to provide the best opportunities for the company and our clients.”

The Context

• Both CAA and WME, another major talent agency, have drawn billions of dollars in investment as they push to expand globally and into the digital realm.

• CAA took an investment earlier this year from CMC Capital Partners of China that also created a Chinese joint venture.

Today’s Washington Speed-Read

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From left: Gary D. Cohn, the National Economic Council chairman; Jared Kushner, a senior White House adviser; and his wife, Ivanka Trump, the president’s elder daughter and adviser, maintained private email accounts after taking roles in the White House, current and former officials said.CreditDoug Mills/The New York Times

• It isn’t just Jared Kushner. At least six of Mr. Trump’s closest advisers — including Ivanka Trump, Stephen K. Bannon, Reince Priebus and Gary D. Cohn — also used private email addresses to discuss White House matters, according to The New York Times’s Matt Apuzzo and Maggie Haberman.

• The billionaire investor Peter Thiel is under consideration for chairman of the president’s Intelligence Advisory Board, according to Vanity Fair's Adam Ciralsky:

Another senior official had this to say: “What Peter has been offered” — the P.I.A.B. role — “is a hugely important position. It’s the only meaningful executive-branch oversight of the intelligence community. This P.I.A.B. will have more authority than it did under Obama.

He didn’t follow the trajectory of Henry Paulson or Robert Rubin, who acquired Washington contacts while leading Goldman Sachs. And while Mr. Mnuchin has a close relationship with the president, it doesn’t appear to be like that of James Baker with Ronald Reagan, which allowed Mr. Baker to manage the last major revamp of the tax code.

Sponsors Weigh In on N.F.L. Protests

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The Dallas Cowboys, led by owner Jerry Jones, center, took a knee before the playing of the national anthem for Monday night’s game against the Arizona Cardinals.CreditMatt York/Associated Press

Some of the N.F.L.’s deep-pocketed sponsors have openly sided with the players over President Trump in the controversy over kneeling during the national anthem.

Mr. Greenhill has stepped back from the business in recent years, friends and employees say. Key relationships that spurred deals in the firm’s early years have gone quiet as key contacts retire.

What Obama Is Telling Wall Street

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Former President Barack Obama leaving the InterContinental New York Barclay Hotel after delivering remarks at the Cantor Fitzgerald Global Healthcare Conference on Monday.CreditSam Hodgson for The New York Times

The former president’s speech at the brokerage firm Cantor Fitzgerald didn’t include swipes at the Trump administration.

What it did include: A sober look at what the Affordable Care Act accomplished and what needs fixing.

Mr. Obama ended up fielding only one inquiry — about technology and government health care costs — and answered it soberly and at length, running out the clock. Mr. Obama then beseeched the audience of health care business professionals to keep the sick and scared at the core of what they did.

“If you’re going to make money this way, you better think about it,” he said.

Entrepreneur’s Abuse in Colombia Prison

Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, a former dot-com entrepreneur and Goldman Sachs banker, faces trial in October in federal court in Manhattan on charges of conspiracy to commit security and wire fraud.

But he had already spent 10 months in a Colombian prison, where, he says, he was abused and raped.

“They pushed me down to the floor by my head and shoulders. One of them had a knife at my Adam’s apple. I tried to leave my body, pretend that I wasn’t living it. I wanted to die. I’ve regretted at times since then that I didn’t jerk my head away and let my throat be cut.”

How to Woo Amazon

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Mayor Jim Watson of Ottawa on a visit to Seattle. “Our immigration policy is much more liberal,” Mr. Watson said of one edge a Canadian city might have in bidding to host Amazon’s second headquarters.CreditKyle Johnson for The New York Times

• Getting an Amazon Echo to suggest your city when asked where the company should build its second headquarters (Danbury, Conn.; Washington)

• Building war rooms to analyze what Jeff Bezos likes (Detroit; Tulsa, Okla.)

• Sending delegations to Seattle (Philadelphia; Ottawa)

Jeff Cheney, the mayor of Frisco, Tex., made a video:

The video opens on him holding an Amazon box and saying, “Amazon, you’re growing your business, and we want to grow with you.” Jerry Jones, the owner of the Dallas Cowboys, is seen talking about catching the “Frisco Flu,” which the mayor’s office said was a phrase Mr. Jones came up with. Mr. Cheney also gets a Jamba Juice (Jamba Juice is based in Frisco).

Quote of the Day

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Black cabs in front of the Houses of Parliament in London on Monday. The British capital’s transport authority said last week that it would not renew Uber’s license to operate in the city.CreditEddie Keogh/Reuters

“While Uber has revolutionized the way people move in cities around the world, it’s equally true that we’ve got things wrong along the way. On behalf of everyone at Uber globally, I apologize for the mistakes we’ve made.”